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GoDaddy Auctions sells 39,071 domain names in September
GoDaddy Auctions’ September was in line with previous months. GoDaddy sold 39,071 domain names through GoDaddy Auctions in September, down slightly from 41,291 in August. The company’s latest Domain Market Report didn’t change much ...
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GoDaddy Auctions sells 39,071 domain names in September
GoDaddy Auctions’ September was in line with previous months. GoDaddy sold 39,071 domain names through GoDaddy Auctions in September, down slightly from 41,291 in August. The company’s latest Domain Market Report didn’t change much ...
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October 1, 2013, 11:08 am
Domain Name Wire
A Fortune 100 company’s domain name expires in 11 days
Once again, this company has cut it close. In April I wrote about how 15 Fortune 100 companies had domain names that expired this year. It’s now October, and all of the companies have renewed their domains before they expired. Some have cut it ...
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A Fortune 100 company’s domain name expires in 11 days
Once again, this company has cut it close. In April I wrote about how 15 Fortune 100 companies had domain names that expired this year. It’s now October, and all of the companies have renewed their domains before they expired. Some have cut it ...
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October 1, 2013, 10:53 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN publishes final Rights Protection Mechanisms for new TLDs
Final RPMs create two types of sunrise periods and leave room open for special treatment of geo domain names. ICANN has published the final Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) added to the new top level domain name program. There are a few notable ch...
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ICANN publishes final Rights Protection Mechanisms for new TLDs
Final RPMs create two types of sunrise periods and leave room open for special treatment of geo domain names. ICANN has published the final Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) added to the new top level domain name program. There are a few notable ch...
Discussion
October 1, 2013, 9:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Company raising up to $200M in IPO licenses its key domain name
Company that uses Vince.com doesn’t actually own the domain name. Last week Apparel Holding filed its S-1 to go public. The clothing company hopes to raise up to $200 million in its IPO, so it’s no small fry. Which is why I find it amazin...
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Company raising up to $200M in IPO licenses its key domain name
Company that uses Vince.com doesn’t actually own the domain name. Last week Apparel Holding filed its S-1 to go public. The clothing company hopes to raise up to $200 million in its IPO, so it’s no small fry. Which is why I find it amazin...
Discussion
September 30, 2013, 11:51 am
Domain Name Wire
How did the new Kozmo.com get the old Kozmo.com’s domain name?
Because Kozmo.com never fully expired, the group trying to relaunch the brand had to go to extraordinary measures to get the domain. Kozmo.com, the delivery service that became a poster child for the dot.com boom and bust, is coming back. Sort of. I ...
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How did the new Kozmo.com get the old Kozmo.com’s domain name?
Because Kozmo.com never fully expired, the group trying to relaunch the brand had to go to extraordinary measures to get the domain. Kozmo.com, the delivery service that became a poster child for the dot.com boom and bust, is coming back. Sort of. I ...
Discussion
September 30, 2013, 11:22 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain parking company named to bad hosts list, but…
Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows ...
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Domain parking company named to bad hosts list, but…
Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows ...
Discussion
September 30, 2013, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Apple drops .com button in iOS7
Shortcut to .com websites not as prominent in latest operating system. The only device my daughter has used to visit a website is the iPad. So when I let her use my laptop one day, she looked at the keyboard with a puzzled look. “Where’s ...
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Apple drops .com button in iOS7
Shortcut to .com websites not as prominent in latest operating system. The only device my daughter has used to visit a website is the iPad. So when I let her use my laptop one day, she looked at the keyboard with a puzzled look. “Where’s ...
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September 27, 2013, 12:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and the options will stink
Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve...
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Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and the options will stink
Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve...
Discussion
September 27, 2013, 9:50 am
Domain Name Wire
Claiming trademark to the term “women”, company files UDRP against women-asia.com
Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Pr...
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Claiming trademark to the term “women”, company files UDRP against women-asia.com
Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Pr...
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September 27, 2013, 9:37 am
Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name sales from Sedo
An organic food company, bowling alley, and baby photo site bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4M worth of domain names last week. Here are fifteen domain name sales to end users. BabyVote Limited, which holds baby picture contests ...
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15 end user domain name sales from Sedo
An organic food company, bowling alley, and baby photo site bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4M worth of domain names last week. Here are fifteen domain name sales to end users. BabyVote Limited, which holds baby picture contests ...
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September 26, 2013, 10:42 am
